Rishi, We use stacks of IBM x-series servers, notably x33# for our 1ru boxes, and x34# for 2ru - when more disk is required on-board.
Anyways, Debian works fine on these boxes. However, with the new ones, you need a custom bootfloppy or CD-ROM to handle the Fusion MPT device (x33#), or ServerRAID controllers (if purchased with x34#). There are even tools to monitor the status of each: ipssend (serveraid), and cfg1030 (Fusion MPT). Feel free to nag IBM about Debian support though. They could always make it easier to port .rpm's to .deb's, or even provide them in the first place! I can provide you with 2.4.x series kernel config files that will build a < 1.3MB kernel to boot recent x-series. Cheers, Martin Foster Systems Engineer Pacific Internet (Australia) Pty Ltd w: http://www.pacific.net.au e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Rishi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30-Oct-04 16:20 To: Alvin Oga Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why are company's not certifying Debian? > the server you buy, is herein "blessed/certified to work with debian" > - see the incompatibility list as what was previously > posted for what is known NOT to work Hi Alvin, joking apart. :-) .. really what I meant was once I tried to install Debian Woody on an HP server and it was unable to do so ... meaning... it did not have the SCSI controller driver to install the OS on the HDD. However, with Red Hat, I was able to download an RPM which contained the SCSI drivers for it load at startup. In the same way right now I was hoping to buy this server and use the built in features like Hardware RAID and Mobile / pager notification when disk fails. Will these features be supported? I have not had a look at this hardware and thus can't try it out. I need to find out as much information about it from forums and websites before I place the order. Anyway I'm considering trashing the idea of hardware RAID and go for an Assembled 1 U Rack Server with two 80 GB IDE hard disks. On which I Will use the second disk for backups. Thanks for the help though. Regards -- Rishi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
